Find a PhD supervisor
Once you've identified the subject area you wish to research, you will need to find a supervisor for your project. All Doctoral Researchers are provided with a lead supervisor, who will act as the main source of academic supervisory support and research mentoring during your time as a Doctoral Researcher at the University.
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麻豆精选 for supervisors below to see who you think may be a great fit for your research area. Once you have identified they are able to offer appropriate supervisory support, you can start to reach out to staff using the contact details provided on their profile.
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Professor in Modern History
Department of History
Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.
Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Professor of Central and Eastern European History
Department of History
I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.
I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.
Associate Professor in International History
Department of History
Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...
Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History
I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:
The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.
Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History
Department of History
I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.
Associate Professor in International Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:
- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states
Associate Professor in Ancient History
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.
Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:
Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Associate Professor in the History of Warfare and Conflict
Department of History
I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.
Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): 鈥楻etro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
Honorary Professor of Medicine
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
I currently do not accept new PhD students. I have 4 completed PhD students and 7 completed Master students. I currently have 4 PhD students under my supervision.
Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Yemisi is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Methodology for the evaluation of medical tests
- Methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Primary studies and systematic reviews of tests
If you are interested in doctoral research in or related to these areas, please contact Yemisi using the contact details above.
Professor in Financial Economics
The Department of Economics
Postgraduate Supervision
- Zixi Guo (2023 - present)
- Mohammad Aldoub (2023 - present)
- Fei Ge (2023 - present)
- Xinyi Wang (2023 - present)
- Zhenyi Zhai (2022 – present)
- Zhuangchen Wu (2021 – present)
Doctoral Research
- Abdullah F. AlSabah (2022), “Essays on Information Arrival and Asset Prices”, placement: Capital Market Authority of Kuwait
- Linh Vi (2022), “Essays on Employment and Wages in Online Labour Markets”, placement: Aston University
- Ge Gao (2022), “Essays ...
Professor of Company Law and Company Law in Context
Birmingham Law School
I am available to supervise in the following areas. Business History, corporate law theory, critical approaches to shareholder rights and shareholder centred governance, the socio-economic and political impact of corporate activities, growth, degrowth and corporate sustainability, the visual arts and corporations, corporations and labour, corporations and social progress, business human rights, feminism, gender and corporations and the political economy of companies.
Honorary Clinical Lecturer
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
This is a new skill Jennifer shall develop during her Clinical Lectureship.
Director, Research Unit in Asian Christianity
Department of Theology and Religion
- Chinese Christianity
- East Asian theologies & spirituality
- Religion and politics in East Asia
- Faith and culture
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Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
Dr Junqi Tang is an experienced PhD supervisor and is currently accepting PhD students. Please email him with your CV if you are interested in working with him.
Assistant Professor in Modern Languages
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome enquiries from prospective students studying in the following areas:
- Using technology to facilitate students’ learning of a foreign language;
- Investigating student experiences of learning L2 Chinese;
- Teaching Mandarin Chinese in a business context.
Assistant Professor
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Dr Tang currently co-supervises two PhD students and is looking for PhD candidates in the following areas.
- Metal additive manufacturing and related subjects
- Multi-scale experimental mechanics in extreme environment (including hydrogen)
- Design and development of new structural alloys
- Interdisciplinary research involving one or more areas above.
Associate Professor of Social Work
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Denise Tanner's current doctoral supervision covers the following areas:
鈥� Evaluation of the teaching of communication skills to social work students
鈥� Navigation of safety and risk by people with dementia and their carers
鈥� Older people and carers鈥� experiences of 鈥榟ospital-at-home鈥�
鈥� New relationships in permanent care settings from the perspective of the non-
care dwelling spouse/partner.
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.